With tight races for Lead Actor and Lead Actress, suspense ran excessive earlier than Netflix‘s two-hour no-longer ad-free thirty first annual Display Actors Guild Awards Sunday night time, the place swearing was allowed. The SAG Awards 2025 was hosted by Kristen Bell (additionally a nominee this yr for her present “No one Needs This”), streamed dwell globally from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Corridor.
As a rule, SAG winners repeat on the Oscars. Of the highest 5 SAG prizes (Ensemble Solid, Main Actress, Main Actor, Supporting Actor) 4 of final yr’s winners additionally went on to win the Academy Award. Eventual Greatest Image winner “Oppenheimer” led the sector with wins for Greatest Solid, Male Actor in a Main Position (Cillian Murphy) and Male Actor in a Supporting Position (Robert Downey Jr.), which repeated on the Oscars.
However Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), who made historical past as the primary Indigenous SAG winner for Greatest Actress, went on to lose the Oscar to Emma Stone (“Poor Issues”).
This yr the SAG Awards unfold the love. The shock of the night time among the many movement image winners was Timothée Chalamet’s Main Actor win for “A Full Unknown.” Chalamet thanked his mom, and mentioned that over 5 1/2 years “he poured every thing I had into enjoying this incomparable artist Bob Dylan…I’m in pursuit of greatness, I wish to be one of many greats.”
This marks Chalamet’s first win for “A Full Unknown.” Earlier than this, “The Brutalist” star Adrien Brody took the Drama Golden Globe, the Critics Selection, and the BAFTA, beating “Conclave” star Ralph Fiennes on his house turf. “The Brutalist” and “Depraved” gained nothing on the Spirits or SAG. However Brody and director Brady Corbet might nonetheless win on March 2, and each movies will acquire some craft wins, together with “Conclave.”
We is not going to know the winners till the Oscar present on ABC March 2.
At SAG, “Conclave” gained Solid in a Movement Image, which is able to correlate to robust help from the actors department. Whereas the SAG Awards are extra mainstream than the Oscars, “Conclave” additionally gained Greatest Movie on the BAFTAs, which reveals robust worldwide help, in addition to Tailored Screenplay on the USC Scripters. Director Edward Berger didn’t obtain a Directing Oscar nomination.
On the Oscars, “Conclave” goes face to face with “Anora,” which gained the Critics Selection award and Indie Spirits in addition to guild prizes on the WGA, DGA, and PGA. These wins are indicative of a probable Oscar Greatest Image victory.
The Greatest Actress Oscar race can be nonetheless aggressive. Demi Moore gained the Golden Globe, CCAs and gave one other robust speech at SAG, however “Anora” star Mikey Madison gained each the BAFTAs and Spirits: each teams have appreciable overlap with Oscar voters.
In her speech, Moore recalled getting her actor’s fairness card in 1978. “It gave me which means and goal and route. I used to be by myself, no blueprint for all times. I knew nothing about appearing, watched and listened…Don’t lose sight of the human connections. That’s the work we do.”
Supporting Actor and Actress SAG wins went to the frontrunners who’re sweeping the awards teams, Zoe Saldaña for “Emilia Pérez” and Kieran Culkin for “A Actual Ache.” “I’m proud to be a part of a union that permits me to be who I’m,” mentioned Saldaña. “I imagine all people has the best to be who they’re.”
Their wins on Oscar night time appear inevitable.